T-Mobile UK has introduced Microsoft Push Email on all its
Microsoft Windows 5.0 handset devices, including the MDA Pro, MDA
Vario and MDA Compact.
The new service will allow businesses such as small- to
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to pick up email on the move.
The Microsoft Push Email service from T-Mobile will be available
to customers using Microsoft Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2. Users
will be alerted automatically for access to incoming email, which
will be delivered directly from the customer's Exchange Server as
and when they arrive.
The service works over GPRS, 3G and Wi-Fi, and offers Outlook
properties including synchronisation of tasks and the ability to
search for contacts by using a company's global address list (GAL)
over the air. It will also provide a new offline address book
format, finer controls for public folders, including better
replication and permissions management, safe removal of servers,
and folder deletion logging to increase administrative
efficiency.
In addition, the service will have centrally controlled password
protection; local data wipe to enable SMEs to decide how many
incorrect logon attempts are permitted before data is considered to
be at risk; remote wipe, to ensure that lost, stolen, or misplaced
devices can be reset remotely over the web removing
company-sensitive data.
Customers can use T-Mobile's latest tariff, called Web'n'walk
Professional, which offers users unlimited browsing on the
internet, or any other data tariff to access the Push Email
service. Web'n'walk Professional costs £17 per month (+VAT).